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Super PAC Aligned With Senate G.O.P. Cuts Off New Hampshire TV Ads [1]
['Shane Goldmacher', 'Trip Gabriel']
Date: 2022-10-21
In a sign that New Hampshire is at risk of falling off the map of Senate battleground states, the main super PAC aligned with Senate Republicans said on Friday that it was canceling $5.6 million in television ads that it had reserved in the state for the final two weeks of the race.
Republicans in New Hampshire, which was once seen as one of the party’s top chances to pick up a seat in 2022, nominated Don Bolduc, a Trump-style retired Army general, to run against Senator Maggie Hassan, a Democrat. Mr. Bolduc has sparred with the state’s popular governor, Chris Sununu, a Republican who tagged Mr. Bolduc in turn as a “conspiracy-theory extremist.”
National Republicans had spent money late in the race to prevent Mr. Bolduc’s nomination, but he won the primary in September anyway.
Mr. Bolduc has promoted hard-right views, suggesting he would consider abolishing the F.B.I. and asserting that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald J. Trump — before reversing himself immediately after the primary, and then seeming to backtrack from that reversal. Mr. Bolduc has also been adamant that if he wins, he will not support Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as the party leader.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/us/politics/nh-gop-ads-bolduc.html
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